Capital One
Director, Full-Stack Engineer
$269K–$335K
McLean, VA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- At least 5 years of people management; at least 7 years in each of the listed technical areas. Preferred experience includes multiple requirements ranging from 2 to 10+ years, as stated in the posting.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; preferred Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads multiple engineering teams and shapes technical strategy and architecture for scalable, cloud-based banking platforms.
What you'll do
- Manage, mentor, and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers while driving talent strategy.
- Guide architecture and delivery of full-stack solutions, including cloud deployments and migration from monoliths to microservices.
- Set platform strategy and standards, and lead efforts to improve resilience, scalability, engineering practices, and delivery velocity.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 5 years of people management experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges.
Pay
$269,100 - $307,200 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $293,600 - $335,100 USD base salary (San Francisco, CA)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust
AI focus
Preferred expertise applying agentic AI coding tools to systemic development challenges; preferred experience designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems.
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